Rapid coastal growth has led to a significant increase in impervious surfaces like roads, parking lots and rooftops. Since rainfall cannot soak into these hard surfaces, runoff controls are required ...

A representative from one of the municipalities comprising the council of governments responsible for compliance with tightening stormwater regulations favors imposing a special assessment to pay for ...

Cincinnati's Metropolitan Sewer District could charge those who own large parking lots, garages and other impervious surfaces for runoff those structures cause, but it's not a done deal yet. Hamilton ...

Disconnecting impervious surfaces, like directing gutters onto lawns instead of driveways, can significantly reduce stormwater runoff. Rain barrels offer a free water source for gardens (non-edible) ...

First, the bad news: Nationwide, urban development with impervious surfaces has increased 20 percent over the past two decades. The resulting increase in stormwater runoff is costing cities an ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Apartments, single-family houses and businesses have replaced grass, even ponds, or scrubby grass around Sioux Falls. Parking lots, rooftops and similar are referred to as ...

Stormwater is the 800-pound gorilla in the city’s menagerie of environmental issues related to water. It is also one that, compared with the better-known problem of combined sewer overflows, the city ...

Swimmers and boaters at Leddy Park beach in Burlington. A new rule to control water runoff is designed to limit pollutants flowing into the lake. Photo by Cate Chant/VTDigger Just six weeks after ...

Raise your hand if you’ve heard this before: Connecticut has some really old infrastructure. And that includes drainage systems. While towns like Norfolk were reminded of this the hard way in July ...

If only it were just about rain. A bill that now sits on Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk has been dubbed a “rain tax” by Republican critics. This has oodles of bumper sticker appeal, but no: Nobody is taxing ...